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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Hi and welcome to our 101st challenge at Inspiration Destination. We've two fabulous sponsors with us this week. We've got fun Bugaboo Stamps offers 7 digis to our first lucky winner and fairy-licious Morgan's ArtWorld offering three digis to our second winner! lol Is fairy-licious a word? It should be! :D

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell
decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of
papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That
was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps
is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still
growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all
the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound
to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.
Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week! And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.
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Morgan Fitzsimons is a British artist, illustrator and author. Born in the North of England in 1939, she has been drawing and painting since she could hold a brush. Morgan studied at the LJMU, gaining her NDD, A.T.D and BA.

Morgan is a traditional artist and works in many mediums and her artwork has been displayed all over the world. Morgan has also been involved in many art related and non art related industries She taught in schools for 20 years and retired as Head of Special Needs. She has also developed and published educational packs and teaching aids as well as fictional work.She has been involved in designing costumes for various opera and theatre companies, and was also a wildlife artist for several charities and organisations.

Congratulations! Please send an email to IDCB.Winner@gmail.com within 7 days. We will provide you with info on how to collect your prize. :) Be sure to grab our badge from the right side bar to proudly display on your personal blog! Thank you so much for playing along with Inspiration Destination!

Now for our DT Favorites! These participants were each handpicked from 168 entries!

Team members who participated in the challenge each selected a favorite and here they are:

Billie's favorite is #73 Julie P and here's why in her own words: Great masculine card, I love the fibers she used, colors and the image is perfect.

Dianne's favorite is #60 Anet and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous card love the image beautiful colour's and design xx

Geesje's favorite is #4 Inaand here's why in her own words: very nice card. Love the way you make it.

Khushboo's favorite is #4 Ina and here's why in her own words:Love the layering and the vintage-y look. Beautiful paper and embellies.

Jolanda's favorite is #68 Maya and here's why in her own words: The image is so cute and beautifully colored. The flowers and designpapers are so lovely

Michelle's favorite is #126 Blue Daisy and here's why in her own words: I love how she used the image. And the background and sentiment are great.

Patricia's favorite is #15 Henriette and here's why in her own words: This is a great design. I love the big sentiment with the little dog. The brown dots are perfect in the empty background.

Shell's favorite is #101 Laila and here's why in her own words: just love the colour & the fact that you have put your jellyfish & mermaid in space! Love it!!!

Wendy's favorite is #152 Mi Pequeno Tesoro and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous project, love all the details put into this

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Congratulations and well done! Please grab our DT Favorite badge from our side bar to the right.

Thank you for joining our challenge last week and we hope to see you again!

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Welcome to our Anything Goes Challenge No. 100! Can you believe we've been doing this for 100 weeks! Wow! I can't believe how the time just flew by! Thank you all for joining us in our crafting journey!

At FabrikaFantasy.com we write and illustrate stories in the genre of fantasy adventure (heroic and urban), mystery, thriller, comics, as well as children's books. Please browse the 'Books' section of this website to learn more about our stories.

We offer character/mascot creation and custom illustrations for books, board games, greeting cards, blogs/websites and other purposes. We have long experience in doing artworks of various styles (cartoon, fantasy and realistic). Please look through the samples of our work in the 'Portfolio' section, and if you like them and wish we provide you with something like these, feel free to contact us.

Also, we would like to invite you to visit our Online Store of instantly downloadable images for your crafting and design projects. In the store you will find various characters, illustrations, digital stamps and more. You can use the images for handmade craft items, jewelry, gift tags, scrapbooking, printable cards, posters, decoration, labels, stickers, magnets, t-shirts, coloring pages and much more. We are constantly adding new images, so please come back soon and often!

The FabrikaFantasy.com website is maintained by Taimy, a small creative studio located in a cold but beautiful corner of the world, in Siberia, Russia.

Thank you so much for visiting! We hope you will find something inspiring and useful here.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn’s Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award 3 digital stamps of the winner’s choice to the winner of this challenge.

Congratulations! Please send an email to IDCB.Winner@gmail.com within 7 days. We will provide you with info on how to collect your prize. :) Be sure to grab our badge from the right side bar to proudly display on your personal blog! Thank you so much for playing along with Inspiration Destination!

Now for our DT Favorites! These participants were each handpicked from 165 entries!

Team members who participated in the challenge each selected a favorite and here they are:

Billie's favorite is #9 Adrian Reeck and here's why in her own words: He made the card by himself (his mom is Monika Reeck who is an awesome crafter) His little border at the top and the cute Latte cup with the word Coffee is awesome for his dad's birthday

Dianne's favorite is #130 Cathie and here's why in her own words: Fabulous and Fantastic card just love the image xx

Ema's favorite is #58 Scrappy Scatty Jane and here's why in her own words: Wow! Wow! WOW! This is such a fantastic project. So much detail and I love how it's been showcased! xx

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Challenge Rules

Bummer! Rules! Yuck! Have to have them for those who don't play fair! Sad but true:

1. Our challenges are Anything Goes bi-weekly, rain or shine! Most of the challenges are JFF (just for fun - no prize) but a few are sponsored. These challenges start on Wednesdays at 12 AM USA CST and end on the second Tuesday after starting at 12 PM USA CST. You can share cards, altered items, mixed media, layouts or anything else you can think of that you've made with your two hands and used your imagination to create! This must be a new project and no back-linking please!

2. Entries are unlimited per participant. DT Members will leave comments on the first entry for each participant. ALL entries will be viewed in order to select the TOP 3. This is something we've always done and will always do. :)

3. You must be a follower to win prize when we have sponsors! Otherwise, how will you know you have won?

4. Please mention and link back to our challenge on your entry post.

5. This isn't a rule, but please turn off word verification; otherwise, we cannot leave some blog luv!

6. If you do not have a blog, please feel free to email your project to us at inspirationdestinationcb@gmail.com. We will be happy to show your card for you.

7. When we have sponsors, winners are chosen with Random.org and listed on Thursdays after the start of the new challenge. You have one week to claim the prize. If prize remains unclaimed, a new winner will be chosen by Random.org

8. There will be TOP 3 chosen by three select Design Team members week after week, whether we have a sponsor or not.